Graduate student teaches international salad class

3:26 PM,
Jul. 11, 2012

Huda Al Herz cuts up pieces of hot dog to go into a Russian salad Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at the Center for Vital Aging in the Cornerstone Center for the Arts. Herz taught the class how to make healthy, homemade salads from around the world. Other salads that were made were a fattoush, or peasant, salad, and an eggplant salad from Egypt.

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Samm Quinn
news@muncie.gannett.com

Huda Al Herz will graduate from a graduate gerontology and wellness program at Ball State University this month, but before then, she'll finish an assistantship program at the Community Center for Vital Aging.

Herz, a native of Saudi Arabia, is studying at Ball State on a scholarship. She's a graduate assistant at the CCVA and occasionally teaches a course on healthy cooking.

Last month, she taught two courses on preparing healthy international salads. Those included a Middle Eastern salad, a Turkish salad, a Russian salad, Lebanese and Egyptian. ...